We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …

The central objective of our paper is to assess the opportunities and challenges for trade for Asian economies during … the low-carbon transition. To do so, we examine the green trade patterns of Asian Development Bank member economies in the … equipment, account for the largest share of green trade. In fact, since the early 2010s, the shares of Asian economies in world …

trade with the PRC can become an engine of growth for developing Asia. To do so, we examine the structure of PRC's trade … consumer and less of an assembler. This provides ground for optimism about the prospects of trade with the PRC as a source of …

-Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) a case in point. This paper qualitatively and quantitatively examines the economic feasibility of …-dimensional analysis provides some, but not overwhelming, support for AKFTA's prospects as an effective means of promoting trade between …

Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants—the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … actively pursuing trade liberalization with the Big Three. The central objective of this paper is to qualitatively and … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN–PRC, ASEAN …

There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …